intellectuelles
\ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥɛl\
The verdict
“intellectuelles” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,708. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,708
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de intellectuel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intellectuelles · intellectuelles · French
intellectuelles · rank #14,708 · 19 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,708
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inquiets
Nearest frequency peer: inquiets (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « intellectuelles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- infirmerie
infirmerie
85,296 corpus weight
- injonction
injonction
85,295 corpus weight
- inquiets
inquiets
85,294 corpus weight
- intellectue…
intellectuelles
85,293 corpus weight
- interrompue
interrompue
85,292 corpus weight
- intolérance
intolérance
85,291 corpus weight
What this shows « intellectuelles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intellectuelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #14,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intellectuelles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around intellectuelles (IPA \ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,708 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de intellectuel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for intellectuelles, with forms such as "inetllectuelles", "inntellectuelles", and "intelectuelles". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "intellectuels", "intellectuelle", "intellectuel", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is intellectuelles, spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de intellectuel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how intellectuelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais tandis qu’à Moscou je ne voyais se lever d’autres souvenirs historiques que de conquête napoléonienne, vain effort suivi tout aussitôt de désastre, à Leningrad maints édifices me rappellent ce qu’ont pu avoir de plus cordial et de plus fécondant les relations intellectuelles entre la Russie et la France.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetllectuelles
- inntellectuelles
- intelectuelles
- intelelctuelles
- intellcetuelles
- intellecctuelles
- intellecteulles
- intellecttuelles
- intellectuelels
- intellectueles
- intellectuelless
- intellectuellse
- intellectuleles
- intellecutelles
- intelletcuelles
- intlelectuelles
- inttellectuelles
- itnellectuelles
- nitellectuelles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intellectuelles - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).